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I see no reason for recording the obvious.

Edward Weston

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.
EDWARD WESTON

Photography Steel Substance
Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
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Eye Opportunity Vision
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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Composition Strongest Way
No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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Cameras Photographer Simplest
Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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Art Atatined Never Quit
Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
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Art Order World
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera’s eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive.
EDWARD WESTON

Eye Ideas Matter Mind Switch
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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Artist Facts Thinking
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
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Lenses Photography Want
Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
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Makers Results Way
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
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Photographer Photography Program
The painters have no copyright on modern art!… I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be – compared to painting – it has different means and aims.
EDWARD WESTON

Art Believe Photography
It’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
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Artist Cameras Telling Truth
This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
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Looks Photography Rocks
Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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Clouds Interdepend Rocks Tree
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer’s understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.
EDWARD WESTON

Important Photography Understanding

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

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